Thom Hartmann is replaying his Wednesday show today, and I heard something in an interview with Rep. Peter DeFazio that made me want to download the podcast and hear it again.

Did anyone notice that DeFazio, Dennis Kucinich, and Pete Stark of California were Progressive House Dems who voted against this bill? It is not getting much attention.

DeFazio said on Hartmann that the bill creates a new market of derivatives and credit default swaps, another BUBBLE, according to Thom. The EPA regulation of emissions was confirmed by the Supreme Court two years ago, and this bill prohibits the EPA from doing this. This was a specific provision in the bill that the polluters wanted.

These “cap and tax” crybabies are a “smokescreen” to fool Progressives into supporting a bad bill, when no bill at all would have been better.

You can download the mp3 of Thom’s show here. It’s Hour 1 on 7-2-09, start at 14:20.